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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:03 pm 
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The B-32 and YB-49 come to mind.

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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:17 pm 
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Solid choices.

I will add to my personal short list (there are other extinct ones, but these are the ones I would like to see:)
Short Sterling
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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:33 pm 
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Without a doubt, my number 1 pick - the TBD Devastator!


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OD/NG wrote:
Without a doubt, my number 1 pick - the TBD Devastator!


I thought the type was recently un-extincted?


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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 3:04 pm 
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OD/NG wrote:
Without a doubt, my number 1 pick - the TBD Devastator!


I thought the type was recently un-extincted?


Don't think it counts until they're recovered.

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Republic P-43 Lancer
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DeHavilland Hornet (apparently this one may be coming to pass)


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I second a B-32 Dominator or flying wing bomber

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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 3:50 pm 
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Warbird Kid wrote:
quemerford wrote:
OD/NG wrote:
Without a doubt, my number 1 pick - the TBD Devastator!


I thought the type was recently un-extincted?


Don't think it counts until they're recovered.


Correct, underwater doesn't count. It is extremely unlikely that any underwater TBD's will ever be recovered, therefore they will reach a point in time where the metal will dissolve and turn into paste and become unrecognizable as an airplane.


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Curtiss P-40Q.
There was one, but its value wasn't recognized at the time.
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Ditto the Stirling,

and for my pick of types I would like to see flying :

Me 323 Gigant (just to scare the H**l out of everyone)
Miles M35 Libellula (resembles a Lysander that has been assembled by a mechanic on drugs).

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I've got to agree with a Stirling. A major combat type. A lot if guys died in them. Hard to believe a major allied type would be scrapped into extinction...especially in the UK, a place that really likes it's history.

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Yep, B-32 and TBD were the first to come to mind.


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Northrop F-15 Reporter. I believe one survived until the '60s but was destroyed firefighting.


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Douglas DC-5
In many ways it was closer to the future for transport planes than its brother the DC-3.

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